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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 39 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Linda Scott and Kitty Hendrix. |
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A leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowerment This program includes an introduction read by the author For the past fifteen years, the scholar and activist Linda Scott has played a central role in the rise of the women's economic empowerment movement. A coalition made up of activists, multinational corporations, global NGOs, and governments, it arose in the mid-2000s in response to new global data sets that revealed sobering conclusions about women in the economy, namely that gender inequality is a global problem, and that women's economic subordination drags down national economies and fosters global crises, from severe poverty to human trafficking. In The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment, Scott argues that women's systematic exclusion from economic participation has created an alternate system that she calls "the Double X Economy": having suffered from a consistent list of severe and worldwide economic exclusions applied throughout history, women have been shaped into an entirely different economic practice. Yet while the women's economy, taken as a whole, is restricted and constantly under threat, when empowered it is more careful, cooperative, and focused on long-term outcomes than the economic order under which the world lives now. Building on the momentum of the female empowerment movements currently mobilizing worldwide, The Double X Economy presents an entirely new conceptual schema for women's rights based on economic liberty. Accessible and convincing, Scott's groundbreaking study is an assessment of women's historic subjugation, a demonstration of how that subjugation has resulted in myriad intractable problems, and a call to action to once and for all place women on an equal footing with men in order to create a better world. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Women -- Economic conditions.
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Feminist economics.
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Women in economic development.
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Hendrix, Kitty, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781250752840 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1250752841 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14009595 |
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